Severe Consequence Quotes

It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make

We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life.

I’d rather you have my pecker cut off.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

This is a very grave matter, punishable by...well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine.

But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

... the industrial equivalent of capital punishment.

You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.

A Locrian, who proposed any new law, stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected, the innovator was instantly strangled.

He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.